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.DUMPING GAB, AND` APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING THE SAME.

No.2?4,439. Y Patented Manzo, 18:83.A

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UNITED STATES PATENTA OFFICE.

JOHN J. CLARKE, OF PATAPA, PERU, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO A. W.

COLVELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DUMPlNG-CAR AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part' of Letters Patent No. 274,439, dated March20, 1883.

Application filed December 26, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. CLARKE, of Patapa, in Pern, have invented anImprovement in Gars for Dumping, and in Apparatus for Transporting thesame, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l is a side View, showing my improved cars carried on other cars.Fig. 2 is a front view of my car while dumping its contents. Fig. 3 is aside view ot my dumpingcar mounted on another car. Fig. 4 is nu enlargedcross-section of my car, showing its dumping mechanism. Fig. 5 is a planview of the middle plate ot' my dumping-car. Fig. 6

is a plan view of a cane-field and the tracks running therefrom to thecane-carrier, as arranged according to my system. Fig. 7 is a side view,partly in section, of my cars being dumped on the cane-carrier.

My invention relates to a novel construction ot dumpingcars for railwaysor similar purposes; also, to novel arrangements for transporting thosecars from place to place. My devices and methods are especiallyapplicable to the transportation ot"v out cane from the canefields tothe cane-carrier which transports the cane to the mill.

My inventionconsists in a dumping-car, composed of an open tank or othersuitable receptacle, mounted upon a turn-tablewhich stands upon anyordinary style ot' wheeled truck, and is attached thereto. This car isso arranged that the tank, when in its ordinary position, Will standhorizontally; but when the tank is turned around sidewise a foot on theupper plate of the turn-table will` trip into a hole in the middle platethereof and cause the tank to tilt and dump its contents. When emptiedthe tank is lifted into the horizontal position and turned back, and thefoot on the top plate catches on the solid portion of the middle plateand holds the tank in its horizon tal position.

My invention also consists in an arrangement of mechanism by which thesetilting cars are run crosswise upon platformoars and held there, andtransported by moving said platform cars to some other desired point,when the tilting cars may be run olt again from the platform-cars uponother tracks.

It also consists in the arrangement and combination ot' mechanism,hereinafter more fully described.

1n the drawings, Arepresents my improved dumpingcar, having a tank orreceptacle, l, preferably made of iron, and open at its top and ends, asshown. These tanks I are each firmly attached to the tp of a plate, B,provided with one or more feet, a. This plate B has projecting ears b bat its middle portion, 6o one on each side. The middle plate, G. (shownin an enlarged View in Fig. 5,) is provided with projections or ears cc, extending upward from the surface of the plate, and so arranged thatthey fit alongside the ears b b ou the plate B, one on each side. Thebar d, passed through holes in the ears b b and c c, makes a pivotalconnection between the plates B and C, so that the plate B and tank Imay swing on the bar d with a tilting motion, as shown in Fig. 4. 7o Theplate C has a recess,f, out into it at each side, large enough to permitthe foot o of the plate B to pass through and into said recesses. Theplate C is rigidly attached to a vertical bolt, E, which passes throughalower supporting-plate, l), turning` freely therein. This bolt E is soarranged that the plates B and C will turn horizontally with it, as on apivot. The plate D has a notched edge, the notches being of the samesize as those in the plate C. The 8o plate B is capable of two motions,one a swinging motion, together with C, around the bolt E as an axis orpivot, and the other a tilting motion on the bolt d when the foot acomes opposite and trips into the notches of the plates C 8 5 and D. Theplate D projects in any convenient manner from an ordinary truck, F,having wheels.

The parts so far described constitute a car A. These cars A arepreferably ot' a narrow 9o gage-say of a twenty-inch gageand are usedfor collecting and conveying the cut cane from the cane-fields.

The letter Gr represents a portion of a caneeld with the cane growingtherein. Tracks 9 5 H H, of a gage that will t the gage of thedumping-cars A, are run from-the lield Gr to a cross-track, J, of abroader gage, and laid lower than the ends of the tracks H. The tracks Hmeet and cross at the switch K, and upon them loo 2 l amaai are run thedumping-car A, as shown in Fig. 6, right into the cane-fields G, andloaded there with the cut cane. The cars A are then run along the tracksH upon rails R, that are fastened crosswise, in two or more sets, uponthe platforms ofthe fiat cars L, which run on the broad track J. rlhuseach car L can support two or more of the dumping-cars A, run directlyfrom the elevated tracks H upon said cars L. The broad-gage cars L are'shown as holding each ot' the dumping-cars A,which are placed thereinand held by any suitable means. When one carL has stopped oppositethe-tracks H and been loaded With its quota ot' dumpingcars A, it isthen moved out lof the way and another oar, L, moved up and loaded inthe same manner. A train of cars L, carrying dumping-cars A, is thusformed, which may be drawn by an engine, O, along the track J toany-.desired distance,and this train may be stopped opposite a seriesot' tracks, P, of a gage adapted to fit the tracks of thedumpingcarsA,and so arranged that the tracks P run up to meet the cross-tracks R onthe cars L. The dumping-cars A,being then releasedmay be run along thetracks P' to any desired distance until they stand over the cane-carrierQ.-

Thisconsists of an endless belt or movable iioor, above which the tracksPare carried crosswise, and as the cars A s tand on these tracks abovethe carrier Q every alternate car A may be turned, by means of theturn-table arrangement B C of those cars hereinbefore described, untilthe foot a comes opposite and trips into notchesfin the plate CandD,When the trucks will be tilted at an angle, as shown in Fig. 7, andthe cane Will slide out of the open ends of the tanks 1 and lielengthwise on the moving cane-carrier Q, and be carried oft' by it inthe direction ot' the arrow. Eyeryalternate .car being thus dumped, theempty tanks may be turned back into their original horizontal positionon the trucks, and the remaining cars A may then be tilted and dumped inthe same manner. The cars-A may then be run back along the tracks P andreturned to the tield G in the manner already described, to be againloaded; or they may be runoff upon tracks on the other side of thecane-carrier Q, and there await their turn to be returned to thecane-field. The cars A, being quite small and light, can be easilymovedon their tracks H and P by hand or light animal-power, thelocomotive being only used on trains of cars L,loaded or not with carsA.

l claim- Y 1. The truck F, carrying the notched plate D, in combinationwith vertical bolt E, notched disk C, horizontal bolt d, plate B, havingfeet a, and open ended tank I, substantially as shown and described.

2. The car L, carrying rigid cross-track R, secured .upon its upperface, combined with truck F, vertical swivel E, having horizontal jointd, and tank I, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination ot' tilting cars A with the rai-ls P and cane-carrierQ, said cane-carrier being beneath said rails, substantially as hereinshown and described.

4.. The combination of' the narrow-gage tracks H and P with thebroader-gage track J,which is placed on a plane below the tracks H and Pfor use with cars L and A, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN J. CLARKE. "Witnesses:

WM. RFM', E. BRNING.

